lap-rny incision bleeding

One of my incisions (the puffy one under my left breast) started bleeding yesterday and hasn't stopped.  Well...it stops when i am lying down on my back, but as soon as I stand up to walk around, it starts bleeding again.  I went to bed last night hoping it would close up again, but woke up at 5:30am having ruined my bed and sheets. (any tips of getting  a huge blood stain off my mattress?)  I must have moved around in my sleep.  I live alone so no one is here to help me clean up.  I'm planning to go to the urgent care to see if they can throw a stitch in it or perhaps just put a steri-strip on it.  It doesn't open for another 3 hours. what do you guys think??? thanks, Elaine

To clean up the blood, use peroxide.  It doesnt bubble up dirt it reacts with the blood and bubbles that up.  I would call your dr about the bleeding.  If its a huge stain then that is a cause for concern. 

What did your surgeon use for closing you up? Mine use that like glue stuff that closes cuts and stuff. I can't think of the name right now. I would put a call into your surgeon though. This is an emergency situation because you can't be bleeding everywhere! Just ask if he can help you out by telling you what you can pick up at the store to help stop it - I think steri-strips are sold at pharamacies! Good luck!

Thanks -- I didn't know they sold Steri-strips over the counter, but I will definitely go look before going into urgent care.  And I will call Dr. Joya today.  I finally got the blood off my mattress, but the sheets are pretty bad. (Oxyclean can only do so much). Sad too because those sheets were 1000 thread count   Oh well.... I'll just be glad to get this bleeding to stop!  thanks for all the advice

If you've tried Oxyclean, the only other suggestion I have is throw them in the washer with a can of Coke (the soda drink).  It's been known to strip oil/grease out of overalls.  Might work on the blood stains.

Thanks Heather, fortunately, I was able to save my mattress, but I'm afraid my sheets look like a murder scene - even after my scrubbing them with Oxyclean and one cycle in the washer. I'm sad, but I"ll go ahead and order a new set. Once you've had really good sheets, its hard to go back to anything else.

So I went looking for steri-strips, and none of the pharmacies here carry them. So I went to Urgent Care, where I didn't go in but I did talk to a doc there. He said he thinks the far right suture came out (I can see the suture line). He wanted $338 to put a stitch in  and $125 for the visit. Then he tried to scare me that I may be bleeding more on the inside (under the skin) than I am on the outside, and that I needed an ultrasound. I was like, nope - thanks! And I left without any treatment or paying him a dime. I went back to Walmart and picked up Liquid Seal from Band-Aid. I used it on that side of the incision and the bleeding stopped.  Times like these I REALLY wish I had a partner, or at least a roommate!    Elaine